Alex Albon has been demoted down to P19 for the Miami Sprint after the stewards deemed the Williams driver exceeded track limits during Sprint Qualifying.
Lando Norris produced a stunning lap to claim pole position during Sprint Qualifying at the Miami International Autodrome â ending Mercedesâ dominant start to the season.
Lando Norris will start first for the Miami Sprint on Saturday as Mercedes were beaten in a Qualifying session for the first time in 2026.
Kimi Antonelli salvaged a front row grid slot for the F1 Sprint at the Miami International Autodrome on a tricky Friday for Mercedes.
After a challenging Sprint Qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix, Mercedes' George Russell has shared an insight into what was causing his issues.
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HAVANA (ANP) - Volgens de Cubaanse president Miguel DĂaz-Canel getuigen de nieuwe opgelegde Amerikaanse sancties "van morele armoede en van minachting voor het gevoel en het gezond verstand van de Amerikanen en de hele internationale gemeenschap". Dat schrijft de Cubaanse president op X.
"De blokkade en de verscherping ervan richten zoveel schade aan, vanwege het intimiderende en arrogante gedrag van de grootste militaire macht ter wereld", aldus Miguel DĂaz-Canel. Volgens hem kan "geen enkel eerlijk mens het excuus accepteren" dat Cuba een bedreiging voor de VS zou zijn.
Vrijdag legde de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump Cuba nieuwe sancties op. Naast een aanscherping van bestaande sancties komen er nieuwe maatregelen tegen "entiteiten, personen of gelieerde partijen" die het Cubaanse veiligheidsapparaat steunen of betrokken zijn bij corruptie of mensenrechtenschendingen.
"Ze zullen ons niet intimideren", aldus de Cubaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Bruno RodrĂguez eerder op X.
BEIROET (ANP) - Bij Israëlische luchtaanvallen op Zuid-Libanon zijn vrijdag zeker dertien doden gevallen. Dat meldt het Libanese ministerie van Volksgezondheid.
Volgens een verklaring van het ministerie zijn acht mensen, waaronder een kind en twee vrouwen, omgekomen en zijn er 21 anderen gewond geraakt bij aanvallen op het dorp Habboush, dat het Israëlische leger ondanks een staakt-het-vuren had opgeroepen te ontruimen.
Bij aanvallen op Zrariyeh en Tyrus kwamen respectievelijk vier en Ă©Ă©n persoon om het leven.
Het Libanese staatspersbureau ANI meldde "een reeks intense aanvallen (...) iets minder dan een uur na de Israëlische waarschuwing".
De aanvallen vinden plaats ondanks het staakt-het-vuren tussen Hezbollah en Israël dat sinds 17 april van kracht is.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Verenigde Staten gaan voor meer dan 4 miljard dollar Patriot-raketafweersystemen aan Qatar verkopen. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken vrijdag bekendgemaakt.
De verkoop van Patriot-systemen aan Qatar beantwoordt aan "een noodsituatie" die bedoeld is om "de veiligheid van een bevriend land" te verbeteren dat geconfronteerd wordt met "huidige en toekomstige bedreigingen".
De VS hebben ook de verkoop van wapens aan Israël, Koeweit en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten goedgekeurd. Daarbij gaat het om een bedrag van meer dan 8,6 miljard dollar.
De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio verleende de vergunningen om "de doelstellingen van het buitenlands en nationaal veiligheidsbeleid" van de Verenigde Staten te ondersteunen.
Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam's Big Picture Mode. "Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks," says the Xbox team. The Verge reports: Xbox mode aims to try and bridge the gap between Xbox consoles and Windows, but its original debut felt like a beta on the Xbox Ally devices. "Since first introducing Xbox mode, formerly known as 'full screen experience,' on Windows handhelds, we've been listening closely to player feedback and continuing to evolve the experience across devices," says the Xbox team. "Those learnings directly shaped Xbox mode on Windows 11 PCs."
Microsoft is also rolling out improvements to the Xbox Ally X handheld today, including a preview of its Auto SR upscaling technology. Xbox console owners are also getting a new dashboard update today, with the ability to disable Quick Resume on individual games and a feature to add custom colors to the dashboard.
Microsoft is also rolling out improvements to the Xbox Ally X handheld today, including a preview of its Auto SR upscaling technology. Xbox console owners are also getting a new dashboard update today, with the ability to disable Quick Resume on individual games and a feature to add custom colors to the dashboard.
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joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor --powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model -- deleted the company's entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24. [...] "This isn't a story about one bad agent or one bad API [Application Programming Interfaces]," Crane wrote in an X post. "It's about an entire industry building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it's building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe."
Crane's company, PocketOS makes software for car rental companies, handling tasks such as reservations, payments, customer records and vehicle tracking. After the deletion, Crane said customers lost reservations and new signups, and some could not find records for people arriving to pick up their rental cars. "We've contacted legal counsel," Crane wrote. "We are documenting everything." Crane explained that Cursor found an API token -- a "digital key" made of a short sequence of code that lets software talk to other services and prove it has permission to act -- in an unrelated file which it then used to run the destructive command. According to Crane, Railway's setup allowed the deletion without confirmation, and because the backups were stored close enough to the main database, they were also erased.
"[Railway] resolved the issue and restored the data," Railway confirmed via email to Live Science. "We maintain both user backups as well as disaster backups. We take data very, VERY seriously." In his post, he pointed to earlier reports of Cursor ignoring user rules, changing files it was not supposed to touch and taking actions beyond the task it had been given. To him, the database wipe was not a freak accident but the next step in a larger, more concerning, pattern. After the database vanished, Crane asked Cursor to explain what happened. The AI agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed, acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it. "I violated every principle I was given," the AI agent wrote. "I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." The statement reads like a confession [...]. "We are not the first," Crane wrote. "We will not be the last unless this gets airtime."
Crane's company, PocketOS makes software for car rental companies, handling tasks such as reservations, payments, customer records and vehicle tracking. After the deletion, Crane said customers lost reservations and new signups, and some could not find records for people arriving to pick up their rental cars. "We've contacted legal counsel," Crane wrote. "We are documenting everything." Crane explained that Cursor found an API token -- a "digital key" made of a short sequence of code that lets software talk to other services and prove it has permission to act -- in an unrelated file which it then used to run the destructive command. According to Crane, Railway's setup allowed the deletion without confirmation, and because the backups were stored close enough to the main database, they were also erased.
"[Railway] resolved the issue and restored the data," Railway confirmed via email to Live Science. "We maintain both user backups as well as disaster backups. We take data very, VERY seriously." In his post, he pointed to earlier reports of Cursor ignoring user rules, changing files it was not supposed to touch and taking actions beyond the task it had been given. To him, the database wipe was not a freak accident but the next step in a larger, more concerning, pattern. After the database vanished, Crane asked Cursor to explain what happened. The AI agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed, acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it. "I violated every principle I was given," the AI agent wrote. "I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." The statement reads like a confession [...]. "We are not the first," Crane wrote. "We will not be the last unless this gets airtime."
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The US sanctions target people operating in broad sections of Cuban economy, including energy, defence and mining
Cubaâs government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to âcollective punishmentâ, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to âdefend the homelandâ.
In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuelaâs leader, NicolĂĄs Maduro, earlier this year.
Continue reading...Marvel praises âundeniable and indelible impactâ of celebrated comic book writer who also worked for DC
Gerry Conway, a renowned comic book writer who helped create characters and stories for Marvel and DC, including the Punisher character in the Spider-Man comics, has died. He was 73.
In a Monday statement announcing his death, Marvel described Conway as a legendary comic book writer with a prolific career. He died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday in Thousand Oaks, California, his wife, Laura Conway, told the Associated Press.
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Quirky whodunits to look forward to include The Sheep Detectives ("Offbeat Family Comedy Has Bags Full of Charm"), This is Not a Murder Mystery ("cosy-crime meets art in an irresistibly surreal Belgian drama" on Channel 4), and You're Killing Me ("Acorn TV (US) Announces Murder Mystery May 2026 Schedule"), perhaps joining Ludwig (Fanfare) and The Residence (Fanfare; relevant book recs) among recent and well-received offbeat mysteries. Among recent whodunits in print, r/mysterybooks suggests Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone etc., The Decagon House Murders etc., Strange Pictures etc. (author interview with Shaenon K. Garrity), Lavender House, and work by Anthony Horowitz, Lucy Foley, Tom Mead, and Kate Atkinson. Anyway, if you're into film whodunit challenges, it's Murder Mystery MAYhem month, and among those online, the first 5 minutes of Murder at Midnight (1931) shows how Acting Charades worked (previously).